Roy Keane tipped to become Man Utd manager as 'ferocious' Red Devils legend 'knows the standards'
Why hasn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe picked up the handset to Roy Keane around the Manchester Joined manager’s project? Erm. How long have you obtained?
Male Utd head mentor Ruben Amorim is under too much duress to turn his side’s form around after they suffered another loss at Brentford on Saturday.
The end upshot at the Gtech City Arena was the Red Evil ones’ thirdly Premier League loss in six video games this period, disowning them 14th in the table.
Their lone triumphs in 2025/26 came via a 97th-min penalty versus fresh-marketed Burnley as well as at abode to a 10-guy Chelsea.
They were furthermore bombarded out of the Carabao Mug in the second bulbous by League Two side Grimsby Expanse, arguably Amorim’s least pricey ebb as Male Utd pinnacle mutts.
It has been a tragic appointment. Amorim was nervous to proceed to be at Underscoring off CP up until the end of 2024/25 before swiping over at Ratty Trafford in drifter of 25/26, yet the Male Utd hierarchy briefed him last November it was a sheath of now or never ever before.
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In sacking Erik ten Hag as well as appointing Amorim, Male Utd spent around £20million in repayment, as well as would final word to complete the Portuguese if they decide to sack him.
Amorim has past 21 of his 49 complements in penalty — an lawless rejoinder, not merely for a Male Utd head mentor, yet for any kind of head mentor at any kind of bar.
Rumours around probability substitutes are swirling, via Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner amongst the spearheading prospects, while ex-spouse-Barcelona pinnacle mutts Xavi Hernandez has furthermore been connected.
But what around Roy Keane? He’d sift this underperforming group out, wouldn’t he?
Nicely…
The former Male Utd captain has been out of surveillance provided that disowning Ipswich Expanse in 2011, after 2 years in penalty.
Keane reaped more triumphes at Sunderland in between 2006 as well as 2008, as well as has furthermore been servant manager for the Irish national group, Aston Suite, as well as Nottingham Woodland.
He was lone at Woodland for six months in 2019 after 5 years out of the gallery (not punditry-justifiable), as well as has provided that been one of English football’s spearheading pundits.
But he says it how it is, as well as most notably, he Recognizes The Bar as well as the standards that need to be satisfied.
Former Premier League midfielder Jamie O’Hara has bizarrely asserted that Keane should be brought earlier to the bar by Ratcliffe, as well as is startled the co-owner hasn’t contemplated it.
“I’m startled that zero one has phoned Roy Keane as well as asserted, ‘Can you come in at Male Utd as well as be portion of what we’re enforcing here?’ because he is arguably Male Utd’s highest captain,” O’Hara asserted on Sky Sporting openings.
“He is a leader. He’s unscrupulous. When you watch him, he’s savage. You pay captivate to him as shortly as he strolls proper into a garments crevice, you’re gleaning forced in pay captivate.
“He’s gleaning forced in lead by instance. He’s not gleaning forced in permit defamatory standards. I can’t think Manchester Joined have not phoned Roy Keane.”
O’Hara doesn’t outright say Roy Keane should be Male Utd manager. But it’s still instead the pointer.
